Venezia Mestre Railroad Station

ABOVE: A train waits to depart for Venice from
Platform 1 in Mestre's stazione.

Venezia
Mestre, on the Venetian mainland, is one of the two
major train stations in the
comune of Venice, Italy. (The other is
Venezia Santa Lucia in the city center.) Venezia Mestre serves three groups
of travelers:

Local commuters, such as workers and university students who
live on the mainland but go to Venice each day.

Passengers on long-distance trains between other Italian or
foreign cities, which often stop at Venezia Mestre on the mainland instead
of making a diversion to Venezia Santa Lucia.

Mestre isn't a huge station, but it does have quite a few
platforms, and it has all of the services that you'd expect at a station in a
small city. It's also a busy place: According to the
Venezia Mestre page at Grandistazione.it, VE Mestre handles about 85,000
transit visits and 500 trains per day.

Location:

A
Google aerial photo map shows the station, downtown Mestre (above the
railroad tracks), and the adjacent dormitory and industrial suburb of Marghera
(below the tracks). The green "B" on the map points to the station entrance. You
can zoom out and use the map's directional controls to see the rail and road
causeway between Mestre and Venice.

For more pictures of the station, with captions that
describe what you'll find at Venezia Mestre, go to
page 2 of this article.